This series is dedicated to the exploration of the many cultures of knowledge, learning, reading and performing in the Renaissance and Early Modern world (c.1400-c.1700). We invite high quality proposals for monographs and edited volumes from across the wide range of existing and possible future fields of Renaissance and early modern studies.

An interdisciplinary conference to be held at the British Academy, London

This conference will task an interdisciplinary team of scholars of Renaissance studies, as well as of Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) himself, to interrogate both the Swiss historian’s own agenda as well as the contemporary validity and hermeneutic helpfulness of the label ‘Italian Renaissance’